Hi, I am running Vista Home Premium and everything seems to have been fine
so far except that after using it for a couple of hours the desktop doesn't
work at all. I cannot click on anything and the task bar at the bottom goes
wonky with the icons all over the place. It works fine after a restart but
does anybody know what the problem is please. Many thanks.

-- Is that your only problem with Vista? Can we swap?



Wayne L.


"JanT" wrote:
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> Hi, I am running Vista Home Premium and everything seems to have been fine
> so far except that after using it for a couple of hours the desktop doesn't
> work at all. I cannot click on anything and the task bar at the bottom goes
> wonky with the icons all over the place. It works fine after a restart but
> does anybody know what the problem is please. Many thanks.
>
>[/color]

I would ensure you are using updated drivers for your video card and
update BIOS per hardware vendor. This is unusal behavior so I am
assuming this is not an OEM machine logo'd for Vista but perhaps an
older machine with updated components.

daveg

Go to Start, type "rel" in the search box and choose "Reliability and Performance Monitor". Select Reabiliy Monitor Monitor on the left hand side. Here you can check when your started having problems with your desktop and you can also check what soft/hardware you install prior to having the problems and maybe you can solve the issue.

If not, you can use a [URL="http://www.windvis.com/use-system-restore-and-undo-changes-if-problems-occur"]system restore[/URL].

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Windows Vista tutorials and tricks - for beginners and intermediate

You're right. I've just had a look at the reliability monitor, yes it takes
a sudden dip on 5th May which is when it started going wonky. I will have a
check on what I have installed etc and perhaps I can sort it. Many, many
thanks for your assistance.


"nizan" <webmaster@windvis.com> wrote in message
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>
> Go to Start, type "rel" in the search box and choose "Reliability and
> Performance Monitor". Select Reabiliy Monitor Monitor on the left hand
> side. Here you can check when your started having problems with your
> desktop and you can also check what soft/hardware you install prior to
> having the problems and maybe you can solve the issue.
>
> If not, you can use a 'system restore' ([url]http://tinyurl.com/yqfp5k)[/url].
>
>
> --
> nizan[/color]

Thanks Dave, but it is a new machine with OEM Vista. I will try what Nizan
suggests and get back to the group.


"Daveg" <dguenthners******.com> wrote in message
news:1179361374.750621.170050@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
>I would ensure you are using updated drivers for your video card and
> update BIOS per hardware vendor. This is unusal behavior so I am
> assuming this is not an OEM machine logo'd for Vista but perhaps an
> older machine with updated components.
>
> daveg
>[/color]

I've my my new comp and vista for only a couple of days and the same thing
happens to me. When you move the curser over the desktop, everything goes all
over the place and you can not go into the Task Manager because it just goes
wonky too. Just have to restart which can be very annoying. Will try the
method suggested by Nizan and see what could be causing it

"JanT" wrote:
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> Hi, I am running Vista Home Premium and everything seems to have been fine
> so far except that after using it for a couple of hours the desktop doesn't
> work at all. I cannot click on anything and the task bar at the bottom goes
> wonky with the icons all over the place. It works fine after a restart but
> does anybody know what the problem is please. Many thanks.
>
>[/color]

What does the following mean?

avgcc.exe stopped working and
OS stopped working.

They seem to have occurred after installing iTunes and Quicktime




"nizan" wrote:
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>
> Go to Start, type "rel" in the search box and choose "Reliability and
> Performance Monitor". Select Reabiliy Monitor Monitor on the left hand
> side. Here you can check when your started having problems with your
> desktop and you can also check what soft/hardware you install prior to
> having the problems and maybe you can solve the issue.
>
> If not, you can use a 'system restore' ([url]http://tinyurl.com/yqfp5k)[/url].
>
>
> --
> nizan
>[/color]